The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. It's a process known as “rescission,” which requires President Donald Trump to get approval from Congress to return money that had previously been appropriated. Trump's
Well more than that, musk wants the nail in the coffin for all the government agencies that want to tell him things like, you can’t work people to death, you can’t tell people cars are self driving when they crash into stuff on their own, you can’t commit massive frauds, you can’t spew poison gas all over Memphis, etc…
Musk benefit’s massively from a huge chunk of what he ordered DOGE to do, even if we only count the destruction of the departments he shut down, and don’t factor in the possibility that the money may be re-alocated towards his own companies.